When necessary, there is a full course of treatment on an inpatient basis.

In Kyrgyzstan, nearly half of the inpatient treatment admissions in 2003 were new cases.

The activities of specialised (drug related and psychiatric) daytime inpatient treatment facilities receded in 2000.

In 2002, 13,295 people were admitted to inpatient care and day hospitalization, 5,565 (42.1 ) of them were women.

A similar trend was in 2001, save for a greater number of patients in psychiatric daytime inpatient treatment facilities.

For infectious patients, there is an intensive treatment phase on an inpatient basis, and then the DOTS strategy is implemented on an outpatient basis

This data reflects an increase compared to 2001, when 13,014 persons were admitted to inpatient care and day hospitalization, 5,490 (42.1 ) of them were women.

Inpatient care is provided by the Care Units for the Elderly, which are entities of private law, of a non profit or profit oriented character.

In addition to the information provided in the previous report on the treatment and care of AIDS patients, mention should be made of inpatient hospital care which is provided whenever it is clinically indicated.

For children aged under 12 months the compulsory health plan must always include health education, information and promotion, encouragement of breast feeding, monitoring of growth and development, and disease prevention it must also cover immunizations, outpatient, inpatient and emergency treatment, essential medicines, and rehabilitation when necessary.

In medical schools, however, the curriculum in both the basic science and clinical apprenticeship years places the greatest emphasis on understanding the biology of disease processes and high technology treatments. The illness experience gets less and less pedagogic attention as the student progresses from classroom to inpatient ward and clinic.

In the years 1990 1993 there was a decrease of 11 per cent in the initial hospitalization rate among patients with mental problems, and of 31 per cent among patients with psychosis. There was also a decrease in the morbidity rate with mental handicap I (by 13 per cent in outpatient treatment and by 7 per cent in inpatient treatment).